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In the Bible story, it is clear that God wants people ‘to look after each other’, contrary to what Cain says (see Genesis 4:9 and also 1 John 3:11-12, which is a New Testament comment on this story).You and me helping each other to mend, not to break, friendships.God helping Cain to choose the way of friendship.Use some or all of these arrows to illustrate the following: Let the class now decide how they might illustrate the breaking and mending of friendship by a using four strips of paper of equal length, each shaped like an arrow at one end.Christians believe that God does not give up on us.įrom this example, what can we learn when dealing with breakdowns in friendships?Ĭan the class devise a five-step plan that may help friends to say together when that friendship is under pressure? God also protected him (Genesis 4:15).God did punish Cain – God doesn’t pretend that bad things have not happened, but….God gave Cain a chance to own up and say sorry – but Cain fobbed God off with the words: ‘Am I supposed to be looking after my brother?’.God warned Cain that danger was lurking, but he left the choice of what to do up to Cain.He knew that his heart wasn’t really in the worship that he had offered. Talk about how in the story God did step into the situation to stop it falling apart.hurt can get out of hand, producing anger, sworn enemies and worse.Ĭan the class create freeze-frames of some of these scenarios to explore the feelings linked to the breakdown of friendship?.revenge looks for an opportunity to hurt the other person.jealousy, when nursed, can become hatred.someone else’s success can trigger jealousy.How do situations escalate into becoming something as bad as this? Talk about how the following can happen:
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Link the themes of this story to life today.I wonder what Cain said to his new friends about what happened back home and to any others he met on his wanderings.
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